Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1887-03-19
NEWS.
The Richmond Hotel and st. James
Hall Burned.
THE HOTEL GUESTS IMPRISONED BY I'M
MfnsE WALLS or FIRE.
The Screams Of the unio.tunatss Heard
FOR Blocks.
TWELVE PERSONS BURNED 70 DEATH,
AND az IN HOSPITALS.
Death Of Gen. Daniel E. sickles, o
New YORK.
DEATH or MRS. &. B. WAShBURh, Al
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.
DEATH or MRS. &. 3. WAshBuRH, AT
CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.
ESPECIAL TO THE sEyTrSKL.1
Terrible Fatal ConHagrattOn.

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| Hotel and St. James Hall were burned
| early this morning. The loss is fully
a half million of dollars. There
are a number of lives reported lost and
many injured. The building is stu
| ated on the corner of Main and Eagle
streets, extending through to Wash
| ington street. The fire was discovered
| at 8 80 this morning in the e Rich
mond Hotel. An alarm was sounded
and the Fire Department responded
promptly. The house contained a
large number OF guests, and their
heart-rending shrieks could plainly be
heard. Ladders were raised as soon
as possible, and as many as could be
were taken out. A large number OF
them were unable to effect their es-
cape.
At A O'Clock the entire Richmond,
st. James Hall, and other property in
the block were doomed to speedy de-
struction. The whole place burned
like finder. The corridor in the center
OF the building acted as a great funnel,
and as the flames streamed upward
the guests found themselves impris-
oned by walls of fire. The screams OF
the u~nfortunates could be heard for
blocks, and at many OF the windows
they could be seen in their night
clothes, calling wildly for help. At
one of the third floor windows two
guests were seer by the crowd to fall
back into the flames. One man
jumped from the fifth floor to the
roof of a two-story wooden building
adjoining. He was seriously injured.
The number of those injured is not
exactly known. Hon. M. w. Barr,
of Clean, New York, was terribly
burned about the hands and wrists.
A number OF insurance men were In
the building, and several of them
were badly injured. Among them
are w. j. Mckay, OF Niagara Falls;
c.. M. Dubois, of Syracuse w. 5.
Dewey, of Rochester, who had es-
capped with hand burns; Clinton Bid
WE'LL. of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania,
badly burned. At the hospitals are
Charles Davis, OF New York, hands
and feet badly burned; H. b. Smith,
of the North British Insurance Com
pany of New York, hand and feet
burned; Edward Whelan, of New
York, hands in a terrible condition
they are probably not fatally injured.
) The Fitch Hospital contains eight
men and one woman, all are in a
bad condition, and more or less seri-
ously injured. All are from out OF
town except the woman. Two injur-
ed are at the Sisters Hospital.
There are also four persons at the
General Hospital.
The rapidity OF the fire, cutting off
the means of escape, led some persons
to leap for life from windows. Others
got down the fire escapes or on lad
ders raised by the Fire Department.
The shrieks and cries of the poor peo-
pie in the upper stories of the burning
structures were heart-rendering.
One man, mad with terror, leaped
|, from a third-story window, and was
picked up from the stone sidewalk a
mangled and bleeding corpse. Sew
eral. who succeeded in making their
escape, were badly injured and burned,
and some of these will probably die.
Others, more fortunate, escaped with
slight injuries. 1t is now believed
that at least IL persons were burned
to death. There were l25 persons in
the hotel, 20 of whom were transient
guests, eight boarders, the families of
the proprietors and clerks. Twenty
two of these were rescued from win
dows by the iremen. Twenty-Five are
at hospitals, and a large number made
their escape by other means.
The origin OF the fire is not as yet
known. William IL. Airport, night
clerk, says the fire started in the
cloak room under the main stairway |
at 3 80 o'clock. There was nobody
up but myself, the night porter and
the bell boy. Ipulled all four OF the fire /
alarms on the different floors, and the
people came flying down stairs in
their night cloths. The fire followed
the ELEVATOR, and inside OF five min
utes it reached the top floor. | rushed
out of the door after doing all / could.
The bell boy, Plummer, tells his ex-
perience as follows: l was busting
| the. reading-rooin, when | heard a
| shout, and saw the flames coming
| up the stairway from the basement.
Mr.. Airport and | turned on the hose
under the main stairway we straight
ened the hose out and turned the
valve, but the water would not run
then we gave the alarm. The watch
man and got a plank and broke the
Eagle street entrance to the hotel
then we got a plank under the fire
escape off Eagle street, and We helped
the people down. / think there
were about "a guests in the house.
s. p. Whitaker, n Of the pro-
I ietors of the hotel, reports that a
--oro+ ~ d;omondo woro IN thai